The Forrest City times., 1887-12-03
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

nave new depot before long.
 BatesviIle and Mountain Home win soon be connected by telephone.
 Portia has been encircled with forest fires for nearly two weeks.
 A large number of Northern farmers are settling in Monroe county.
 Mountain Home has shipped thrice as much cotton this season as last.
 Henry obar of Franklin county was killed recently by a fall from his wagon
 A Des Arc fisherman caught 400 pounds of fish in White riyer in three days of last week.
 The Masons Of Little Rock have pur- chased a lot for Sls,0o0 cash and will erect temple upon it.
 The Frisco roads depot at Hackett City, with 300 bales of cotton, was burned on the 18th inst.
 Three cotton gins were burned near Hexie last week ny fires spreading from the surrounding forests.
 The Fort smith Tribune's total ab- stinenco editor is pouring hot shot into the boys who go out of the theater be- tween acts.
 A copper mine has been discovered in Baxter county. The Mountain Home Citizen says the ore is Of surpassing richness.
 The gin Of R. K. Fitzhugh, jr, in Woodruff county was burned last Mon- day. Loss about half covered by in- surance.
 Fort Smith has inaugurated a bene- 1eial reform. The ladies there leave their big hats at home when they go to the theater.
 In the United Stetes district court at Little Rock last Thursday, John Hal,l was fined Sl00 and costs for sending an obscene letter through the mail.
 Pine Bluff is suffering from an inva- V burglar is not tramp, but every tramp Is apt to be burglar when occasion offers.
 Navigation Of the Arkansas river IS practically suspended on account oi low water. An old steamboatman says the river has not been so low in thirty years.
 One of the sights in Jonesboro last week was an s-year-old negro girl stag gering drunk. Her father gave her the uluor.
 Fifty bales of cotton were destroyed by fro at the gin ot Johnson < Hollo way, at Hickory Plains, White county, Sunday evening.
 A negro dropped dead of heart dis ease while playing ''craps" in Pine Bluff last week. The body was removed and the game proceeded as if nothing unusual had occurred.
 The Wheelers of Sevier county have their cotton weighed by their county agent, and they say they will not patreniEe merchant who refuses to let the agent weigh their cotton. , Dr. Ballard of Kennett, Mo, was convicted last week of running "blind tiger" on his boat In the St. Francis river in Clay county, and sen fenced to S2o0 iine and thirty days in iail lie took ep appeal
 The residence of Dr. R. Joyner In Jonesboro was burglarized last week and robbed Of gold watch and chain several other houses wero entered. but the burglars got nothing of value.
 In Tine Bluff. last "Wednesday, a dynamite bomb placed on the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas track by some un- known miscreant, was exploded by contact with car wheel. One of the railroad hands, named Wood, was severely injured.
 The Forest City East Arkanslan, which was burned out not long ago is now issued as half sheet. Bro. Kelley promises to tore the paper to Its forBcr dimensions as soon as hia office can be re furnished And he will to 1t. Kelley is a hustler from Hustlerville.
 Ata Sale cf unclaimed packages by the Adams Express Company in Fort Smith recently, Chas. Speaker bought an old trunk for sl.75. He found in 1t a deed to 5000 acres Of land in Morgan county, Tennessee. The deed Is drawn by CAas. W. Walter os Fort Wayne, Ind, in favor of Albert T. Piper, NJ h., of St. Louis. and the consideration bsmed is sl0,0o0.
 The farmers of Monroe county, not witbstanding the short crop and cry of hard times. says the Brinkley Argus, are in better condition to-day than they have been at any time within the last five years. A large per cent. of them are out of debt, with money on hand, and will be able to pay their taxes and pull through the coming veal without giving mortgage.
 Perhaps the largest and most valu- able tree in tine state, or even in the South, says the Des Are Citizen, is the massive cypress which was re- gently cut in the southern part Of Woodruff county, clese to the line of Prairie county. Its dimensions are ! Nine feet and four inches m diameter at the butt, seven feet in diameter at the top, and it is forty-six feet in length. This tree will make, if sawed into lumber IS, 100 feet; or if made into shingles, 200, 600 shingles, which. if sold at $4 per 1000, the regular price, would bring $500.
 The negro. Gilbert Hutson, Of Hot Springs, recently indicted for assault. ing Essel Stubbs, little white girl, was auaigned In the Circuit Court Friday morning. He pleaded guilty